Summary:

This paper presented the characteristics of six chosen river restoration pro-jects, which three of them have been developed in Poland and single in Denmark, England and Germany. Five of that projects have been realized, in it one partly, however in one case conception project was presented. In selection of cases guided of their differentiation in regarding to project's aims, scale of investment and technical measures used. This was a base for analysis river restoration projects regarding to aims and scope of works. The main aim of river restoration is improvement of environmental, natural and landscape conditions, but in each pro-ject this aim is achieved by using different measures. The principle is that project includs of a number supplementary aims, therein connected with river's and val-ley's economic utilization, to which can by inter alia accepted improvement of flood protection, navigation condition technical infrastructure operating and development of tourism and recreation.